National Homestead at Gettysburg

Ulysses S. Grant with the boys and girls at National Homestead orphanage, June 21, 1867

The National Homestead at Gettysburg was an orphanage and widows home opened in October 1866[1]:70 (incorporated March 22, 1867)[2] on the Gettysburg Battlefield along Steinwehr Avenue on the north foot of Cemetery Hill. The facility was created by Dr. John F. Bourns after fundraising resulting from the identification of a Battle of Gettysburg casualty's children as Amos Humiston's.[1] In 1867, Ulysses S. Grant was photographed with orphans at the entrance,[3] and an 1870 Pennsylvania bill was used to fund the facility.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Reef, Catharine. Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America. Retrieved 2012-10-19. read the account in November 1863 [and suspected they were] their children, Frank, Alice, and Fred, ages eight, six, and four. p. 70: The Humiston family subsequently resided at the homestead for 3 years until the widow remarried, when they relocated to Massachusetts.
  2. ↑ Beitel, Calvin Gustavus (1874). A Digest of Titles of Corporations Chartered by the Legislature... (Google books). J. Campbell & son. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
  3. ↑ The Star and Sentinel, Jun 26, 1867
  4. ↑ Gettysburg Compiler, Jul 1, 1870
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.